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Peak-Ringed Renoir

Today's featured image highlights Renoir, one of Mercury's beautiful peak-ring basins. Renoir appears to be older than other basins like Raditladi and Rachmaninoff, with more degradation from subsequent cratering and modification by tectonic activity.

Date acquired: August 17, 2012

Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington